Kobo Start Menu

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Eriol Brumel

I keep opening the "books" exit_nickel and switchtokoreader, but all that results is that the respective PNG graphics are being displayed. If I touch them, I get thrown back to the Nickel start page.

I am sorry to hear that KSM is not behaving properly!

Things are a little complicated, since some points work differently on different models. I therefore try to summarize the expected behaviour of the files exit_nickel.png and switchtokoreader.png when opened from nickel.


If nickel was called by "start nickel"

• on Touch, Glo, Mini, Aura: both exit nickel and return to KSM
• on Aura HD, Aura H2O: both exit nickel and reboot the device

If nickel was called by "koreader_additions > start nickel koreader switch" or "koreader_additions > start koreader nickel switch"

• on Touch, Glo, Mini, Aura:
  • switchtokoreader.png exits (temporarily) nickel and starts koreader
  • exit_nickel.png exits nickel and returns to KSM
• on Aura HD, Aura H2O:
  • switchtokoreader.png exits (temporarily) nickel and starts koreader. This seems however not to work correctly on H2O (and maybe also not onAura HD), and should therefore not be used.
  • exit_nickel.png exits nickel and reboots the device

In your case exit_nickel.png and switchtokoreader.png seem to do nothing at all of that kind. Did you by chance install first KSM and only later inserted the folder kbmenupngs? If that is the case, it might help if you power off the device and on again, to solve the problem. For the moment I cannot think of another cause of the problem and therefore of no other solution.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Eriol Brumel

Hi there,

I have a brand-new Aura H2O, which updated itself to FW v.3.12.0 upon initial boot. I successfully installed KSM and Koreader and was able to switch from one to the other without any problem. I then started Nickel from KSM, which also worked fine. Now I want to return to KSM resp. Koreader, and nothing happens.

I keep opening the "books" exit_nickel and switchtokoreader, but all that results is that the respective PNG graphics are being displayed. If I touch them, I get thrown back to the Nickel start page. What am I doing wrong?

Any help is much appreciated!


Eriol

You probably need to place the KoboRoot.tgz, from the KSM download, into the .kobo directory of your device again and have it redo the process that associates the opening of the .png file with the action expected.

Luck;
Ken

[tshering]

Actually, the association is newly established each time one selects "start nickel." Therefore, reinstalling KoboRoot.tgz should not be necessary.

Before associating an image file with an action, the script checks whether the image is already registered in the database, and refuses to establish the association if the image file is not registered (to be completley on the save side, the script should also check whether the respective thumb nail has already been created, but I skipped this part and trusted that the user will take care that the thumb nail is produced by looking at it in the library list).
But sometimes reinstalling works wonders! So who knows?

[Eriol Brumel]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

You probably need to place the KoboRoot.tgz, from the KSM download, into the .kobo directory of your device again and have it redo the process that associates the opening of the .png file with the action expected.

Dear ts, dear Ken,

many thanks for your speedy replies. It seems that Ken got it right. I re-installed KoboRoot.tgz from the KSM download, and now everything seems to work as intended. Maybe something had gone wrong during the installation of the Koreader nightly.



Thanks again,
Eriol

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Eriol Brumel

Dear ts, dear Ken,

many thanks for your speedy replies. It seems that Ken got it right. I re-installed KoboRoot.tgz from the KSM download, and now everything seems to work as intended. Maybe something had gone wrong during the installation of the Koreader nightly.



Thanks again,
Eriol

With KSM installed, updating Koreader is just a matter of merging the koreader folders. You no longer need to add a .png file or place the KoboRoot.tgz file in the .kobo folder. Doing so might be a way to have the Koreader install have this effect.

Luck;
Ken

[frostschutz]

Does the Kobo Start Menu prevent factory resets (thrice reset as described in http://www.kobo.com/help/en-US/artic...o%20Aura%20H2O )? It seems to replace the central bootup script (rcS) and things like (/usr/local/Kobo/pickel should-factory-reset) seem to be missing from the Kobo Start Menu version of it.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Does the Kobo Start Menu prevent factory resets (thrice reset as described in http://www.kobo.com/help/en-US/artic...o%20Aura%20H2O )? It seems to replace the central bootup script (rcS) and things like (/usr/local/Kobo/pickel should-factory-reset) seem to be missing from the Kobo Start Menu version of it.

The reason for removing this part of the rcS was that otherwise we would be presented with the "Critical error message" every third time we reboot the reader without running nickel.
With KSM, instead of inserting a paper clip three times in a row after booting, one would insert a sd card with autorun.sh containing the factory reset code once. This is the idea, but I did not actually try it myself.

[frostschutz]

Oh, I see.

I was wondering how it detected the triple reset, it seems the should-factory-reset does something to the first 512 bytes of the vfat partition... in particular one byte is changed to 00 -> 01 -> 02 -> 03 -> 04 -> 05 (and there it exits with 1) -> 00 -> ... with subsequent calls, so that does look like a counter of sorts.

I guess if nickel starts successfully, that would be reset somehow.

Not sure if the autostart.sh method would help this guy: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=252810 (bricked H2O, in another thread he stated he had KSM installed)

Then again it bricked during firmware upgrade, which would likely have removed KSM anyhow.

Edit: you mean autoscript.sh?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Oh, I see.

I was wondering how it detected the triple reset, it seems the should-factory-reset does something to the first 512 bytes of the vfat partition... in particular one byte is changed to 00 -> 01 -> 02 -> 03 -> 04 -> 05 (and there it exits with 1) -> 00 -> ... with subsequent calls, so that does look like a counter of sorts.

I guess if nickel starts successfully, that would be reset somehow.

This is how it works. I posted the exact information somewhere on the forum, but cannot find the post myself now. (Edit: I found it. Here it is.)

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Edit: you mean autoscript.sh?

No, it is autoscript.sh. I choose this more uncommon name to prevent that an autorun.sh that might be there by chance will be run.

[Ebri]

I realised today, that signing out clears all the .kobo folder. This way I updated to 3.12.0, and KSM works just fine on the Aura HD.

But one note: I added the fix to be able to do a proper partial update, but today exit nickel turned off the light with no reboot. (After the above reinstall, I have not added the fix having no newer firmware than 3.12, and exit nickel worked as intended, with reboot.) Can a change in the scripts cause such behaviour?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Ebri

I realised today, that signing out clears all the .kobo folder. This way I updated to 3.12.0, and KSM works just fine on the Aura HD.

But one note: I added the fix to be able to do a proper partial update, but today exit nickel turned off the light with no reboot. (After the above reinstall, I have not added the fix having no newer firmware than 3.12, and exit nickel worked as intended, with reboot.) Can a change in the scripts cause such behaviour?

KBStartMenu_06_bugfix_01.zip is not related to what happens after choosing exit_nickel.png. So you should be able to install this bug fix without having this behaviour again.

Sorry, I think I do not understand exactly the sequence of events in your description, but I think what happened is something like this:

When starting nickel, KSM checks whether exit_nickel.png is registered in the database, and only if it is registered, then it associates a certain action with it (in the case of Aura HD and H2O the action of rebooting). In your case the database was cleared, because you signed out, and only after nickel was started exit_nickel.png was again registered. Therefore, exit_nickel.png was not associated with any action, but behaved like any book. However, why the light was switched off, I do not understand.

[Ebri]

Excuse me, during writing the above I had to quickly prepare a photobook, so I parallelly did 2-3 things.

Before anything went wrong, I copied the bugfix, overwriting the original scripts. Then I started nickel, copied some new books, and after that somehow exit nickel seemed to exit nickel, but it was not followed by a reboot. (It is indeed strange, as earlier it worked.)

[tshering]

This is only for KSM version 06!
Purpose: activate side loaded dictionaries.

After installation, go to "tools > activate > activate dictionaries msh"

As for the illustrating images, you will notice that I overdid the "modifications for bad eyes" quite a bit. This has nothing to do with KSM. The first image shows the "activate dictionaries msh" screen, the second image shows the report that was shown after I executed "activate all."

Since this will make changes to the database, you might consider backing up .kobo\KoboReader.sqlite, before trying this.

EDIT: I removed the archive here, and included the content in KBStartMenu_06_update01b.zip, which you can find here.

[stanlefor]

Hi,
I tried to install KSM and Koreader, and it looks great.
Unfortunately, I can't start nickel anymore : every time I launch it, it reboots the reader.
So my question is, how do I uninstall all this?
I think I'll give another try later.
Thanks.

EDIT : Already found the solution : I may keep it for a while after all, but it could be great to know how to uninstall anyway.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by stanlefor

Hi,
I tried to install KSM and Koreader, and it looks great.
Unfortunately, I can't start nickel anymore : every time I launch it, it reboots the reader.
So my question is, how do I uninstall all this?
I think I'll give another try later.
Thanks.

EDIT : Already found the solution : I may keep it for a while after all, but it could be great to know how to uninstall anyway.

Could you please share your solution for the benefit of other users that might experience the same situation. I guess it might be related to the image files in kbmenupngs, but of course I do not know what exactly happened.

I added the uninstall information to this post.